50,000 nice rides

Monday morning, we hit a milestone in Minneapolis. Sometime around 8:00 am, as people were heading into work on a hot summer’s day, the 50,000th ride was taken on our Nice Ride bike-share system. That’s 50,000 rides since we launched the system just 2½ months ago. I couldn’t be more excited about the success of [...]

Electricity in the darkness

Mayor R.T. Rybak Budget Address to the City Council August 16, 2010 Electricity in the Darkness One morning during the height of the Great Depression, a young man named Earl Bakken went to a matinee at the Heights Theater on Central Avenue to see Boris Karloff in the movie “Frankenstein.” Bakken remembered the movie as [...]

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